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• The Indian Copyright Act applies in India, to works first published in India.
• According to The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 (Chapter V Section 25), Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2012, works published prior to 1 January 1952 are considered public domain). Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after 60 years from publication date. Any other kind of work enters the public domain 60 years after the author's death. Text of laws, judicial opinions, and other government reports are free from copyright.

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For background information, see the explanation on Non-U.S. copyrights. This template applies to works first published in India. For anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, government works, works of corporate authorship or of international organizations, and posthumous works (other than those above), this template applies to works published before January 1, 1941, and for any other kind of work, this template applies if the author died before January 1, 1941. Please also note that this template should not be used for sound recordings.

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• It is an anonymous, pseudonymous or posthumous work and 60 years have passed since the year of its publication
• It is a photographic or cinematographic work and 60 years have passed since the year of its publication
• It is a government work or a work of an international organisation and 60 years have passed since the year of its publication
• It is a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work and 60 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author)